Earthquake Video from Wells, Nevada, February 2008

[whittondude]

Dude the cash registers open, forget the earthquake, take the money and run.

[DetroitLove4U]

What about the video surveillance from inside the brothels?

[crazymaze22]

oh i thought i had a stroke

[freshmansuck17]

looting time

[checkers1245]

They didn't show enough. Why is that?

[bapyou]

Holy cigarette cartons, Batman!

[TheBassguy1]

weird. kinda scary too. im in southern cali and i just finished watching this video and my dog was sleeping and just quickly sat up, and starting looking around and sniffing the floor like it was doing something, then she got up and ran to the bed room. and she doesnt run, shes 10 years old with arthritis......now im waiting for the ground to move lol...

:(

[MrRikuTV]

HOLY SHIT i feel bad for that girl. *it looks like the walls were closing in*

[SuperAwsome94]

i live in wells nevda it was soooo scary whene it hit i was paranoid 4 long time lol

[poprocks1396]

lol at 0:20 the bitch cant get out

[sirMAXX77]

i feel bad for them cause they are really not used to anything like that especially something that large, a 4.0 would rattle their nerves enough for a while.

[sobeboy300]

this video would have been great had you let them run a few seconds more each. Learn how to edit.

[DJKing78]

@sobeboy300 They lost power and thats all it recorded. So i was told. :)

[musico81986]

Very bad editing skills, you seem to only capture the beginning of each video without falling through the entire scene, cutting out too early!

+1

[DJKing78]

@musico81986 Because the power went out and they didnt have any back up power, so thats all it recorded. :)

[Anubis4815162342]

@musico81986 They lost power, that was all that was recorded.

[latinguy67]

God is punishing NV for its sinful ways. Everyone who lives there is dark-sided

[AmericanAirlinesRule]

God doesn't exist.

[latinguy67]

God's gonna fuck you up for saying that

[AmericanAirlinesRule]

Umm, no. I can be an atheist whether you like it or not.

[latinguy67]

i like that ur an atheist. party on!

[caravayo]

flying j's is so awesome i live in cali but i travel to mojave to camp on the way is stop there. i love it

[HDEANBERRYDOTCOM]

Yeah, I cost Wells about a million dollars cuz they actually thought they'd collect a bunch of cash for old downtown buildings that were already destroyed. Ha ha. Tee hee.

[HDEANBERRYDOTCOM]

Flying J aggressively pursues reverse discrimination because they get tax credits for hiring femmexnegroes.  Mexicans, blacks, and females (feminazis).

[GamerGirl120595]

i Hope the earthquakes dontt come again thiss year..Ugh..but if i=they do i hope its a big one so all the schools get knocked down=D

[NobleEagle1]

wish granted earthwuack happened in Chile 8.8 and tsunami warnings for California Japan Alaska and Hawaii

[GamerGirl120595]

thats over:p

[purohueso745]

@NobleEagle1 I'm sick of the replics, :S

@GamerGirl120595 But here it doesn't happen, just some walls, old buildings and bad-constructed buildings..., everything else just shaked a bit, but stayed up, :P

[infukinsane123]

@NobleEagle1 I live in Alaska :x

[NobleEagle1]

well it didnt atleast hit u their was a warning for the coastal sides

[jeetp101]

That would actually be cool since I have never experienced one...

[SlimLPShady]

@jeetp101 go to L.A you'' feel them daily.

[KevSerrano]

if u want to feel one go to

Redland, California or

Parkfield, California or

Los Angeles, California

they have Earthquakes all the time

[oko17]

oh my god

[Firecat7409]

SCARY EFFIN STUFF

[midweststyle]

One thing the cameras can get thats real creepy is seeing the actual ground move like waves. And sometimes depending ont eh type of waves that's being created, it'll make small wave liek hills

[W15H4]

Yeah, it is crazy. I've lived in NV all of my life and have felt many tremors. Two types I notice are the ones that feel like the ground is jerking from side to side or like it's floating on water like waves.

[rosuna78]

yea leave the register open lol

[salikagroeg]

i would be shitting me pants 3

[PIECE2YOURMOTHA]

i would have shit my pants!

[cosi66]

horrbile

[piketyl000]

buy guns!

[aublitius]

wow such...quick reactions..

[dom85ross]

thats some straight up david copperfield shit

[Chapas45]

welp, at least the slot machines weren't damaged.

[FlyinRyans35]

this annoyed me. Why did it only show the first second of the quake?

[GeneralAnimator]

i agree with u flyinryans35... this is crap

[DJKing78]

Power went out.

[GeneralAnimator]

oh..damn..i did actually not think about that.. lol

[DJKing78]

@FlyinRyans35 Power went out

[drovamy]

im from peru, we have earthquakes and temblors too, i really dont like it. in 1975 there was a strong eathquake in peru , it was 8.5 and it was devastating.. the capital city was not injure cuz in the capital we do not have earthquake but in the minor cities of the west we do, and it destroyed almost everything in those little towns..

[onlymycomentsmater]

lol dumb ass thinks it from a catfish

[trafficwarrior]

Our own temblor in Western central Alabama! last week. Shook up some U Of A students

[NevadasDesertRebel]

lol i live in battle mountain and i had just got home from work when this happened. we felt it here! i was standing up and started swaying and at first i thought "man i must be tired" hahaha

[Risingart28]

Oh man..........That woman in the office was like....."Time too go!" hehehe...I dont blam her!! I would be in a Tornado any day before I would be in a Earthquake!!!!!!

[xdfd7e]

how dies it feel to be in a earth quake?

[chandru1103]

I said this on another video, but if you have ever been on an amtrak train and stood up while it was moving very fast its like that, now if its a bad one multiply that sensation by 10.

[SnowVixen89]

Damn!

[MonksWearTights]

Depending on where you were at the time (whether on bedrock or landfill) our 6.8 quake that rocked the Puget Sound was a hoot. I was in Tacoma and on bedrock so the shaking wasn't so bad - I later heard from people who were in Seattle and Olympia (landfill or clay) that it was like trying to stand on shaking Jell-O.

[filipos1990]

The record in portugal was 8.75 in 1 november 1755

[spunxy]

after our baby 5.3 one in England a year ago, I really dont want another! especially anything bigger!

[dushuuu]

zzzz

[bobdina]

i was just in a smallll one in jersey 3.0 but it was loud as fuck and scary

[brian92992]

Was it the '94 Northridge Earthquake?

[A2theO2010]

well you know what i was in that one too and in the landers which was 7.4 it was the strongest earthquake i have ever felt everything was shakiing and falling but hey i have to say it too Northridge was something too man i remember that morning and the loudness and the extreme shaking.

[NateCUnder]

speaking of northridge, i lived only few miles away from northridge and no kidding about extreme shaking, i could remember when my bed was being "picked up and then dropped back to the ground" pretty hard. Freaky.

[brian92992]

i straight up lived ON the epicenter, Reseda. I was only 2, but my parents said it should very hard for like 40 seconds and the noise was extreme

[brian92992]

shook*

[Bigs84]

wow amazing... no one cares

[g29l68]

hell with an earthquake , try a tornado been in 2 myself .

[brian92992]

Yeah i thought the same thing about earthquakes too until i was in one. They're scary as hell!

[HardWindStorm]

WAOW ! this earthquake are more dangerous than earthquake in my area :s In this video, it's like the ground is sliping :s

[KJT922010T]

Im glad I live in Florida no Earthquakes

[zillaproductions]

im not i live in reno nevada and in febuary we just were hammeredwith tons of quakes it was scary

[rockfilmers]

I do too, and hurricanes are nothing. I did some research and all the Earthquakes in Florida are up in the pan handle, but they are rare. I went to California twice, and I'm sure I was probably near at least one earthquake, but I never felt it.

[waddlesgee3]

30:00 she got locked in

[Obdulio4fun]

Dat wha crazy*

[NiteOwl1224]

i didnt know they had earthquakes in NV! That looked pretty scary

[heyitsboo]

anything smaller than 7 is a nothing quake...

[KhmerDubbed]

It was a 6.8..

[heyitsboo]

6.9 is 30 times smaller than a 7.0, 6.8 is 30 times smaller than 6.9... thats one way how those seismologist people can determine strength in a quake.

i've felt a 6.8... it did nothing and it was also at quite a shallow depth. i've also felt a 7.2 at a shallow depth and it was pretty big but still didn't do any significant damage.

[CyrusNixes]

just to clarify - a 7 is 30 times larger than a 6, not a 6.9. A 6.9 is almost the same size as a 7 because it's a linear equation, but a 6 is dramatically smaller than a 7.

I'm sure you're just fucking around to be annoying, but a magnitude 6 earthquake is big as hell. I was in the Hawaii 2006 6.7 quake near the epicenter and that baby shook like Kobe Japan in 94. Couldn't even stand if you tried.

[heyitsboo]

Yeah maybe I am just "fucking" around so what? who cares lol. At least I was still on the right track when mentioning the 30x thing. 6.7 IS nothing mate, I was right near the epicenter of the Fiordland Aug 22 2003 7.2 quake, it did fuck all damage apart from over 200 landslides blah blah and was quite shallow. You yanks just loooove blowing things out of proportion you thrive off drama/tragidies because your life is one big soap opera. ROFLMAO! have a nice day :)

[CyrusNixes]

Then you're lying. If you were at the epicenter of a "7.2 quake" that was "quite shallow" then either that isn't true of the earthquake lasted for an incredibly long amount of time (10-30mins) so it didn't release a lot of energy at once. Check out vids of the Kobe Japan quake to educate yourself - that baby was a 6.9 and it shook harder than your mom in a whore house.

[heyitsboo]

lol look the quake up you retard i was staying at a place called deep cove which is very close to secretary island where the epicenter was lol. and i don't need to watch some nip footage to "educate" myself.

oh and your a sick fuck too lol hopefully a quake or whatever comes along and kills everyone you love lol faggot cunt tough guy know-it-all.

[CyrusNixes]

Gurl, you crazy!

[brian92992]

Wow.

[BillyO8834]

you idiot, northridge was a 6.8. you're going to tell me that was a "nothing" quake? lmfao.

[heyitsboo]

yup thats exactly what i said cunt jeez are you blind lol piss off homo lol

[BillyO8834]

LMFAO! you really are a dumbfuck.

[heyitsboo]

likewise :)

[4everSKSturm]

who's the owner there??

[zea6thayec]

No wonder why I felt it in Boise, Idaho.

[xckid87]

lol i love how there are slot machines in the restaurant

[dawneta]

how long was the earthquake. how did you guyz feel? other than scared? i really want to know because yesterday in southern claifornia there was a 5.8 earthquake so.... i am thinking that there might be a bigger one in the future so....... i have to watch out. these stupid earthquakes are very unexpected. and  i think california is under a major fault line so i guess eventually california will be an island.

[sorenti]

welll.. i really doubt we will see california becoming an island in our life time.. in far future - yeah sure, whatever, the continents have moved alll around the earth by now (with sweden originally being where australia is now) so anything is possible lol

while i was in japan then there was one bigger earthquake. it wasn't scary because i was just too curious about it (where i live we have ~1-2 magnitude earthquakes every 30 years, so it's easy to miss them)

[uluvjosie]

i pass through here every single time i go to see my grandparents...we went through there at that gas stations a couple days before it happened...

[lowerclasspunk20]

that's so scary i live in reno and even now i still panic when earthquakes occur...people really need to know how to be prepared for them because they're no joke ..they're real and serious..and worst of all.........UNexpected!

[Surfer240]

The gas pumps would scare the shit out of me!

[CrazyLiam123]

Wow you americans really know how to what to do in an earthquake! If i was in one, id just stand there screaming :D

[JoHnCARLOSSS]

Lmaoo.

yo're name sounds Fimiliar. From this game I used tuh Play o.o

Liam.

If you are who I think you are, you live in Europe, and Played Flyff. o>o

[CrazyLiam123]

Yh i live in England but ive neva herd of Flyff :P

[Tallerico500]

Flying J has a horrible breakfast buffet

[zea6thayec]

Agree but good gas prices!

[havaniko777]

poor girl

[captainamerika8]

I just got back from wells today, I live in mesa az and there is alot of damage there, mainly the older buildings and brick houses,

and all brick chiminies were knocked down.

[TheComputerMaster]

nice!

[maineysanjose]

i didnt even know Nevada had quakes...or illinois...crazy...here in san jose its the norm..but Nevada?? WOW.

[freeamerica365]

YEA....we do now....we NEVER did...the worst part is....at one point we had 100 qaukes in less then 24 hours!! Being a Cali native, I KNOW what EARTHQAUKES feel like....the ones we are getting here in NV...are NOT the same!!! LOOK UP HAARP...Scary stuff...(china qauke maybe)???

[sweet0tea]

I KNOW! dang that was a scary one. and reno, nevada has been having tons also. i was in wells. but i live in reno.

[cam7983]

haha that is what I thought also,..but that is Flying J for you

[SWIFT95330]

The video was working before, with about 10 seconds each from several differend views. i don't know what happened to it.

[dreamspher]

WOW!!!! can we cut the footage down any tighter? we barely get to see 2 seconds of video. maybe we can get it down to .05 seconds. horrible editing

[mnblounds]

i agree with u!

[freeamerica365]

we at freeamerica found out it was our goverment that is doing it!! star wars is still going on!! do some reserch on it!!

be prepared for the worse !!

[comcast713]

i never saw this

[cam7983]

AMEN!!  Thank you very much!

[Goatherder]

You can see how fast the power failed in the second clip when the overhead lights go off. I've noticed that some cctv setups keep going a fraction of a second after a power cut and some don't.. guess the other clips were the latter.

[freeamerica365]

ALL OUR EARTHQUAKES ARE COMING FROM THIS SAME AREA, "JUST" BELOW THE SURFACE TOO....WE HAVE HAD 50 SINCE YEASTERDAY (4-25-08) AT 3:47 pm, WE just HAD ONE....3.1 and one 2 hors agao was 4.2!!! I HAVE BEEN DIZZY AND FEELING SICK FOR GOING ON 2 DAYS, THIS SUCKS!!!!

[ramir233]

Where are they coming from, location?

[mnblounds]

whay does an earhtquake feel like?

[VideoEnthusiast1]

People running away as everything is falling around them. That was stupidity.

[cam7983]

Are you kidding me??.. I'm the one in the clip. I'm currently the c-store manager at Flying J. What would be your first instinct?? Since "running" was so stupid,..what would you have done??...idiot!

[NateCUnder]

I'm not going to say ur stupid or anything but running away is not the best solution during an earthquake because of the falling debris could crush you down. But duck under the sturdy table and cover ur head or door frame, with strong fountain would be the best place to be at during an earthquake.

[regelemihai]

Trust me, if the whole building is coming down on top of you, a table won't save you.

[NateCUnder]

Tsk... you guys obviously not have sufficient experience with an earthquake, no offense. I grew up in Earthquake zone for my whole life and was drilled to do during an earthquake. Running toward outside from inside the building cause more causalities rather than staying in and cover urself under the sturdy table.

[regelemihai]

Ok..if the falling debris catches you on your way that is plausible. But once you can make it outside, an earthquake can't harm you. The only deadly thing about Earthquakes is that the structures that ppl reside in collapse on top of them. If you're outside, what can possibly happen?

[NateCUnder]

many and many stories that people actually got killed JUST from ran toward outside or standing outside with falling debris surround from outside unless those people are very lucky to be in way open place where they re not at the risk of getting hit by the falling debrs. Also the people also survived inside the building if they secured themselves properly. because the building (most of the time) got stacked up in between the sturdy tables and the door frames. U can do some research on it.

[regelemihai]

Sounds logical, I garee with you.

But it's still too much of a stretch for me to believe that if a 30 stories building collpases on its basis, a table will portect you agaist thousands of tons of weight crashing down on top of you :S

That is why I don't like California :P

[NateCUnder]

I also don't like the idea about being in 30 stories building during an earthquake cuz it would be freakishly scary. California is not the only state are at the risk for an earthquake... The entire west states, California, Oregon, and Washington, oh yeah in the rocky mountain area too, and yet in Missouri are prone to 7.5 or greater. Also the eastern states got a faults so just be aware and know what to do in case.

[regelemihai]

Yep...the entire west cost is prone to earthquakes. It is scary indeed, which gives me all the more reasons to to live there.

Well, that and the Californian weather which I despise :P

[NateCUnder]

everywhere in the world got their own natural nasty behaviors so we all can't always escape from it.

[WCQuakes]

If you are in a 30 story building when a quake strong enough to bring it down occurs, running outside won't help one bit. In fact, the quake would have to be so strong that you would be able to run or even walk.

Getting under a table is not supposed to protect you from a building collapse. It is supposed to protect you from falling fixtures and other non-secured debris.

This falling debris is what causes most earthquake injuries.

[regelemihai]

I know it's not supposed to protect me from an entire building collapse. But to me it seems a more natural reaction to run outside where nothing can touch you, instead of staying inside which, although protects you from falling debris, cannot protect you from the option that the entire building falls on its base.

Meh.

[DJKing78]

Been in a few quakes and yes in the rural areas like this i have ran outside in a 5.6M. Its a good bet if your close to a exit. But in the city your screwed either way i think. Might as well hug a corner or do the things they say to.

[JustinProductions767]

if you go in a field, you're 100% safe though

[NateCUnder]

not necessarily but most of the time yeah... cuz the fault may rapture right on the field and put your life in danger. So don't assume that there are a place that are 100 percent safe. I'm being realistic.

[paie2007]

My opinion is that the safest place to be is on the street in your car.

[brett4the4jett]

he is right though the whole building will probably not fall down unless it is very old

[snobahr]

From the back room: This shows WHY you don't leave empy/mostly-empty soda cups around!

[danielchaplin94]

oh my god!!!! in 00:16 the car!!!!

[shanejensen]

This video sucks ass. It cuts away as soon as the Earthquake starts. Come on guys, I want to see everything shaking for longer than a split second each. Why the hell would you cut away as soon as it starts? Doesn't make sense to me. This sucks.

[WCQuakes]

I thought the same thing when I saw this video. Then I realised that's probably when the power went out.

[shanejensen]

Ah, right. I didn't even think of that. What do I know? I'm from the northeast, we don't get earthquakes here and I've never been in one. That's why I was looking up these videos, to see what it's like.

[cfishy5]

I agree. All disaster videos seem to do that. Too bad...

[jtorcaz]

My mom tried to stay standing.

She thought she was high at work. Hehe

[JerryBaby0x]

i felt it!

my cat ran under the coffee table!

lmao!

[thebestmidgeteva]

first one i felt too, shocked me up!

[Jimmy87nottingham]

we had an earthquake at 12:55am this morning in england

[UltimaXavier]

I never thought an earthquake could happen in Eastern Nevada. I live about 50 miles from Wells, and it was the first earthquake I've ever experienced.

[j18786]

ya i live in wendover nd dat was da first 1 we felt

[j18786]

ya i live in wendover nd dat was da first 1 we felt here it wasnt dat bad 4 us

[vityav]

My dad sent me the video from the diesel pumps at the other Flying J in Wells.

What surprises me most is how quickly the power generally goes out in an earthquake.

[progrockr78]

I grew up in Southern California and went through many quakes (Whittier, Landers, Big Bear to name a few), and one thing is certain, the chances of a larger quake happening decrease as time goes by. Besides, the largest quake to hit Nevada was in 1911 I think (7.4, Winnemucca). There is a bigger chance of a larger quake hitting Western Nevada over the next 50 years than there is in the east.

[folatib]

so thats based on your experience hey? right, search black swan.

[sighshy]

my sister lives in wells there has been over 24 aftershocks and experts are saying to expect 8-9 magnitude.

[j18786]

no i heard dat there was over 100 aftershocks nd i live in wendover swicth is cloes 2 wells

[gaae2000]

supposedly there are no quakes in Nevada, right?

[UltimaXavier]

Yes, there are.

[dapez77]

thats girl is scurrrrrrred